Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Marketing

You Ask, I Answer: How to Decide What Content to Create?
Pat asks, “How do you decide what content to create? How do you choose?”

Choose to create content the same way that Google and other algorithms think about it. Relevance, freshness, and diversity.

Choose to create with a specific audience member in mind.

Choose to create using predictive analytics.

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In today’s episode, Pat asks, How do you decide what content to create? How do you choose with all the opposite options and opportunities out there? It’s a really good question

you choose to create Well,

I choose to create what you what you choose to do maybe different.

But you choose to create content the same way that Google and other algorithms think about content and and look for content.

It’s well established in SEO circles. That

content needs to be relevant content needs to be fresh and content needs to be diverse, meaning it needs to be in a multitude of formats. And so

on a daily basis when I put these videos together, I’m trying to

trying to do follow those those general guidelines so

The overall strategy is is something that taken almost literally word for word from my friend Marcus Sheridan Mark shirt and wrote a book

might have been late late last year early this year called you ask they ask you answer and that is essentially the some of those you should still read the books is the fun book to read. But that’s essentially the essence of the strategy is people ask you questions or people ask questions and you answer them. So when someone emails me or leaves a comment on a post or a video or sends me a message, I do my best to answer it. And

that immediately covers off on the freshness

because it’s it’s in the moment it’s as at least one person in the audience is thinking about it and it covers the relevance because I don’t have to then guess what.

Someone is thinking about online. I can know that because you asked me

in the infrequent times when someone doesn’t ask a question directly of me. I will.

I am a member of like a dozen different Facebook groups and like 15, slack channels all on marketing and communications and data science and all these other topics that are relevant to me and to Trust Insights and

on any given day. There’s 100 questions to choose from. There’s 100 questions that people have that people want to know the answer is to pick one of them that again, I can provide a irrelevant answer to

pick one that I can provide a fresh answer to, especially if it’s a topic that

has been around a while

and

create video and audio

text

and images around those those answers. And so that’s

that’s probably the I would say the most simple way to create great content is instead of trying to guess what the audience wants to

answer the audience to answer the questions,

you don’t necessarily have to do it in in this exact question and answer format. But it does help

because it forces you to think

I’m answering the specific question

at a recent talk that my friend Ann Handley gave. One of the things she was saying was that in the topic of email newsletters,

marketers put too much emphasis on the news and not enough emphasis on the letter on the writing of a letter and highlighted the way Warren Buffett

writes shareholder letters he writes them to his sister because

assist as a shareholder of the company and uses that to set his tone and perspective and his voice. And that’s one of the things I love about Marcus Sheridan’s they ask you answer is that when Pat asks a question

I’m not speaking to

an imaginary masses talking to you pat but by extension also you who are watching this video or listening to this audio or reading this text and so that provides

an additional I would say degree of relevance into the conversation into into what we have to share I talked about that not too long ago about why marketers keep talking like hey you guys on a podcast because justice

and then the third thing I would emphasize besides following the algorithms and

addressing an individual’s concerns would be using predictive analytics using forecasting, predictive analytics to know what general topics are going to be

of interest to people

during the days or times are weeks that are are ahead of you. Again, this is something that that

we do at the office

where we forecast out five or 600 search terms,

52 weeks in advance. And then on any given week, we look at the calendar Okay, well, what terms are going to be the most searched for this week? Okay, let’s make sure we have a blog post and a podcast and stuff around that topic so that it is relevant to people when they are searching for it.

Actually, we try and do about two weeks before to give algorithms and search bots the opportunity to index the content in advance,

but that’s sort of a third way that you can create

great content.

At the end of the day,

as long as you’re creating

content that is that obeys the three E’s rule,

which is it has to be engaging meaning that to elicit some kind of emotional response

or it could be entertaining or it could be educational those are the three E’s of content your ideally you can do all three

but at least one is providing some sort of value to the person on the other end of your content. In this case, you know it’s it’s barely 7am here in in the morning and so probably not gonna not going to do a whole lot of of entertainment

but education is something that

I I personally can do it anytime of the day. Try and share

perspective or some knowledge or some techniques or some tips on how to do something.

And so

that’s my

personal methodology of how I choose to create content. Your mileage should vary. Your mileage should be different. You should not be doing the exact same thing.

You may be a much more entertaining person, you may be much more engaging person who gives a very emotional and very

high emotional valence about the topics that you talk about. Again, if you’re a watch Marcus Sheridan, speakeasy is not a calm speaker. He is a very dynamic speaker. And so

your style is different. But starting with knowing what the algorithms are looking for, and knowing what your audience is looking for, and knowing what you’re comfortable doing are probably the three priorities for content creation.

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September 6, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Cleaning Email Lists
Krzysztof asks, “How are you cleaning your email lists? What tools, tips, etc.?”

Cleaning email lists and keeping them clean is vitally important. I recommend a 4-step process:
- Form validation
- Role removal and misspelling repair
- Bounce processing
- Service validation
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In today’s episode, Christophe asks, How do you currently clean your email list? Not just taking any emails, but how do you prevent garbage accounts? Or

we’re letting your list age out? It’s a really good question. That’s a very important question. Because the cleaner your email list is, the better your delivery ability is, the better your delivery ability is, the more likely it is that people will read your email because their email programs like Outlook or Gmail, of course, all the servers and infrastructure in the background are less likely to flag it as spam or put it in the promotions folder or things like that. So a clean list as essential as someone sending email if you are list is unclean. Your service provider may even flag you as spam and

terminate your account depending on which provided you with there’s some companies that are super aggressive like one bad report. And and you’re toast I use Amazon FCS the Amazon simple email service and that has very forgiving amounts but even still you want to keep your bounce rates and your spam flag reports as low as possible bounce rates bounces or when you send an email that comes back and bounces right off and the provider says nope no email account by that name here. So there’s three ways three things you need to do with your email list in order in order to keep it as clean as possible for really number one on forms as people fill out the forms have that verification and validation. So you know, confirm your email that catches typos.

And depending on how good your web coding team is, you may even want to

Do some validation for commonly misspelled domains. So GM I else did gmail dot com would be a simple validation you could set up to at least catch the major obvious stuff. So that’s part one. Part two is again, this is something that might require some development resources. If you don’t have them, you can have a human do it, it’s just not the best use of time. And that is an immediate cleaning of your list using again, so very, very simple thing. So you want a script or program or person

to go through and fix obvious misspellings, hotmail Yahoo Gmail, things like that stuff that’s easy to find and fairly obvious the scripture also not get what are called roll accounts and these are generic in boxes which are much more likely to be junk so you want to filter out info at whatever the domain is like info at bring interesting insights calm.

webmaster at spam at postmaster at abuse at any of those kinds of emails you want to delete them entirely to take them up they’re gone they’re not going to be very helpful to you now there are some people a few people particular small business owners who use like an info at so you might want to let that one slide but certainly any of the other ones like spam at

straight out

so that’s the second the second thing you should be doing form validation and the the misspellings the easy corrections on the list the third thing is that most providers will most email service providers meaning the company you used to send the email will store and optionally send you

balanced email so when the email comes back I’ll come back with an arrow saying mixer public at Trust Insights dot com does not exist

And

you’ll want to have a an inbox set up to collect all these to collect all these balances

and you’re going to film you’re basically going to want to extract again you can the software to do this there are also people who you could hire like an intern to do that

but you want that to extract all those addresses where they comes back with a permanent era there’s two types of areas and email marketing there’s temporary like your mailbox is full and having this permanent which is this huge no longer exists

things like that you want to extract all the permanent errors and the email addresses their associated with an unsubscribe from your list as well. Straight out upload into your email marketing program. Do not email this address

that will really help and then the final step is there are paid vendors out there that will allow you to that they have fairly good services you

You upload your email list the working part of it and it will try to verify whether they address is working or not. Because you know, for example, you could put in

john smith at Trust Insights calm and that looks reasonably legitimate you don’t actually know whether it works or not. And so these companies would that would through a variety of technical means attempted to validate that that’s a working email address. And so that’s sort of the fourth layer so those are the the sequences the steps good form validation

on desktop or on machine easy removal of role accounts easier, more easy correction of misspellings, processing and balances and then finally, you want that you potentially want to list cleaning service don’t go straight to the list cleaning service because every time you use those they cost you money you do the other three steps first, so that you’re spending as little as possible on the actual validation

list because you’ve gotten all the easy stuff knocked out. But that’s how you do email list verification. And it is so important today to do that because that’s really the basis of your marketing database. It’s the basis of

things like retargeting lists and stuff obviously within the boundaries that provided by laws like GDPR, but you need that clean list. So make sure that you are cleansing it on a regular and frequent basis. I do Michael is cleaning about once a month,

you know, you would think for the newsletter, would you you would need to do all that often you do once a month if not sooner.

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September 5, 2018
#WinWithAI: How To Leverage The Value of Data
Melissa asks, “How can companies leverage data — their most valuable asset — as a competitive advantage?”

As part of the IBM #WinWithAI Summit, this is a critical question. What are the uses of data?
- Data as the end product, for analytics and insights
- Data as the source for training machine learning models
- Data as a commodity to be packaged, shared, and sold
- Data analysis as a commodity
- Data insights as a commodity
- Machine learning models as a commodity
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Win With AI: Improving Data Asset Value
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In today’s episode, Melissa asks, How can companies leverage data and their most valuable asset as a competitive advantage? This is a really interesting question. That’s an important question. And something that we’re answering at IBM when with AI summit full disclosure, IBM does compensate me to attend these things, mostly with like shirts.

data has sort of six major outcomes that companies should care about in terms of what the data becomes. Most companies most of the time will use use case number one, which is data as the end product for internal use at the company from that data. We do analysis to figure out what happened we use qualitative research to figure out why and then we set strategies, tactics and execution from those analytics and insights and that is

is a great use of data that is a very smart use of data. But it is only one of six potential uses for that data. Now the second use for data within a company. The second second way we can leverage it is as a training source. So

all machine learning all artificial intelligence requires training data requires data to help the machines build models that they can then use to predict or to understand

new incoming data. So we need for internal use to have really, really good, clean add, categorized

with proper proper taxonomy is data that machine learning software can use to build its model. So that’s the second year. So those are the sort of the two major internal uses of data as the end product itself or analysis or as the training data source to build models and then we

Use those models to run our businesses. Those are the only uses. There’s also for external uses for this data that can be a competitive advantage. The first is the data itself as a commodity, to be packaged, to be shared, to be sold

to be published online. This is the raw data. So if you go to, for example, a castle or data dot world, or data dot gov, these are places where you can actually get data sets and work with them. So you would publish them. There are obviously plenty of data sets that you have to pay money for. And so this is where it becomes a competitive advantage. And a revenue generator for a company say, Hey, here’s our, you know, anonymized clean prepared retail shoes data set as an example. And people could take that data set and then use it depending on how trustworthy it is for their own

data efforts if they need to append or augment their own internal data with your data.

They could do so. So if you a company has, for example, strategic partners, that data set could be an enormous asset for those partners to be able to leverage. The second external use will be data analysis as commodities, that against something you would package and sell. So not just the data itself, but your analysis of it is something that you can go and sell on in the marketplace. Your insights will be the third thing you could sell because, again, insights answer the question of why and typically require additional market research to bring the data to life.

My colleague, Tom Webster often says data is not insight, which is absolute data is the raw material insight is the cooked dish, if you will,

and so you need to have those insights. If you’re drawing those insights from your data Anyway, you could certainly publish those insights as something that you could sell.

On the marketplace from my company Trust Insights, we did a women’s retail shoe study

taking search data and turning it into guidance for markers who are in the fashion industry and say, these are the days and times of the weeks when certain types of shoe or certain brands will be most prominent in the fall.

And the finally the last area where data can be a strategic advantage or or a valuable asset is in those machine learning models. Now, this is where you would, instead of giving someone the data and saying hey, good luck building your own model, you could actually take the pre packaged up training model that you built your own internal use and sell that or share that

in marketplaces for sale. For example, if you’re using IBM Watson Analytics there is the analytics exchange you can actually share your models your workbooks and

with other members of the IBM community, if you are working with things like Watson studio, you can import carrots or TensorFlow or other models, we either the code to generate the model the model itself into Watson studio. So, again, you can see how taking those models, not the data, the model built from the data and being able to share that as a strategic asset is a way to really bolster your competitive advantage or to improve the value of of data as an asset

In the latter case in machine learning models, but even in the data itself.

Another application if you don’t want to sell it is to open source it and then have your community contribute to it, either cleaning it and tagging it, for example, or rerunning or improving the model fixing your code even. And so all of these are ways that you could then re import those

changes back into your production ecosystem and make better models which lead to better. And now analysis, which leads to better insights.

All of this is contingent upon

having clean compatible, well chosen data. Internally complete data

is relevant.

And so having good data is sort of the foundation of this. But once you have good data, once you’ve gone through the very, very lengthy and arduous process of creating clean data, you can then leverage it in these two internally uses and these four extra uses to bolster competitive advantage to help strategic partners in your ecosystem to make some money on it, and ultimately, to make your enterprise work better. So a great question a complex question and get thinking about who else could use this data whenever you’re working on a data set? Who else could use this data? Who else could

benefit from this data and that will give you some insights as to what else you could do with the data to turn it into a greater advantage to turn it into a revenue source. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel the newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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September 4, 2018
#FridayFeeling: The Value of Best Practices
What’s the value of best practices? Some people live and breathe them; other people roundly criticize them. What’s the story?

Best practices are competence in a box. They help us to quickly get up to speed on documented, reviewed, and approved ways of doing things. When you’re first starting out in anything, this is a godsend, to become good at your job quickly. For organizations where everyone isn’t performing optimally, best practices are a necessity.

Over time, as you move from beginner to practitioner to advanced practitioner, best practices can potentially stifle innovation. By definition, you are not trying anything new if it’s already written down in a best practice. That’s when it’s time to explore, experiment, and innovate – and then codify your learnings into new, updated best practices.

Learn how lessons from the martial arts apply to corporate best practices in the video.

Friday Feeling: The Value of Best Practices
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In today’s Friday feeling some thoughts about best practices what’s the value of best practices some people live and breathe them other people roundly criticized him a crap all

over them say that the worst thing for a company’s what’s the story

best practices

if you think about best practices or competence in a box right they are they are co defied ways proven methods for accomplishing a result or for

doing a process in a repeatable verifiable way they help us get up to speed quickly on documented reviewed approved ways of doing things

and if you think about just how how wild west a lot of stuff is inside of companies

that’s not a bad thing especially if you’re new I was at a client recently as a new person at the table and they’re saying they’re just getting up to speed and and that’s someone who really needs that those best practices here’s the book of how to do your job how to get good at your job quickly follow the recipe and and you’ll be able to bake the cake as it were if you have an organization where everyone isn’t performing optimally where everything was in firing on all cylinders again best practices

are

a necessity to get everybody sometimes on the literal same page. This is how we do the thing

in the martial arts when you’re first starting out. You know you learn how to punch and you learn how to to block and avoid and get out

of all sorts of grabs and stuff.

There’s defined written down practice ways of things that most of the time work for most of the people and those would be the best practices in the martial arts we would call them kata, pre arranged forms and there to help you learn the muscle memory help you learn the basic good habits you’re supposed to have. And the best practices are no different in the business. They are the business version of a kata you learn the basic good habits that you’re supposed to have.

Now here’s where

we can look to the martial arts for understanding where best practices are not helpful

as you move from beginner to practitioner to advanced practitioner and then eventually depending on whether you want to not even become a teacher

best practices can stifle innovation, because at a certain point in the martial arts, you the product is the Japanese term is a shoe hottie. You learn the form, you master the form you very area before we make variations, you learn all the variations and the possibilities of that form. And eventually leave the form behind you’ve, you’ve learned it so well that it’s become a part of you is unconscious. And you don’t need to think you know, left hand right hand left block, right punch, you just do it because you’ve done it so much. It’s like, it’s like walking right

in the beginning of your watch a baby though, kind of very tentative, and like you have to

literally remind them left foot now, right foot, left foot, yep. And, and, you know, try and keep your head up, don’t fall over. By the time you’re, you know, five years old or 10 years old, 15 years old. Walking is an unconscious thing, you just do it, you follow the best practices of walking for one foot in front of the other

in companies. Best practices are essential

for people who are new in their

job, or for getting people to adhere to a specific way

of doing things. This is the way we do it.

But

if innovation is important to your company, if new products, new services, new ideas, new ways of doing things are important your company and there’s that it should be part of your company’s DNA, then best practices eventually become inhibitory.

By definition, if you’re not trying anything new short is you’re already It’s already in the manual, right? If it’s already written down, you are not going to create something new, you’re repeating what’s already been done. And that’s inhibitory, to be able to explore, to experiment to innovate. And then codify your learnings into new and updated best practices.

How do you know when you’re there, you’re there when everyone can do the basics.

So again, to the martial arts, you can’t teach someone

who’s a white belt, the most advanced spear fighting technique that’s just going to go badly for everybody,

you absolutely can teach somebody that once they put in their 20 years, and they’ve gotten all the basics down, and they can do the basics. And it’s, it’s, it’s automatic, it’s, it’s baked into their their brains, and they’ve learned the variations of the basics and they can do all those, then it’s time for them to to leave those basics behind not to stop doing them but because they don’t need to focus on you know, left hand right hand in accompany

you look for the person who has gotten good at their job, they’re producing output, they’re doing what they’re supposed to do, and they start talking about things like where can I get some more training? Where can I get some more professional development? Where can I get what can I learn a new thing, can I go to a conference and stuff you see if you have that curiosity, combined with the competence that’s when you say, Okay, this person needs variations of best practices, or this person may even be able to start leaving best practices behind in the sense of, Okay, now you’re going to start innovating now, you’re going to start creating new stuff, net new things,

it’s difficult, it is difficult, because if your skills as a manager

or an executive are to optimize and tune what is already there, which, by the way, is an extremely important skill,

then managing innovation is very different. Because you by definition, are managing things that are not fully baked, that are not

clean that are not codified in machine learning, and, and everything that’s happening in advanced marketing technology. Today, every day is a new day, every day, there’s something new every day, there’s something different and it can be very challenging to manage that, like, Oh, hey, look at this thing that was using yesterday no longer works the same way. It’s completely different. It’s like when you open your phone, and you know, all your apps update. And like,

I don’t even know how to use the camera on my phone. I knew that’s really different.

And so

the goal is for us, as managers, as leaders, as executives to

have a center of innovation, have best practices and use the center of innovation, to test best practices, to refine them to optimize them, or maybe even to throw old ones away that no longer generate the results we want, and build new ones. Test, experiment, innovate, explore, and then write down what we’ve learned and turn those into the new best practices.

Best practices like anything are

not applicable to everyone all the time. But they do work for most people most of the time, and so

let’s avoid criticizing them until we make sure that we ourselves and our companies have mastered the basics.

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August 31, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Forwarding Domains
Ryan asks, “I’ve got a .net and a .com. The .net gets all the traffic. How should I make use of the .com?”

I’m very wary of anything that imperils what’s currently working well. I’d forward the .com to the .net. Plus, there are some other neat tricks you can use with the .com to treat it essentially like a link shortener. Watch the video for more details.

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In today’s episode, Ryan asks, I have the dot net for my company’s domain name. And the dot com is now available.

I get a lot of traffic to my dot net. Is there any benefit of changing the URL for my company website from dot net to dot com? Or should I just forward it? Well, it’s a good question. There is a lot of benefit to take advantage of the way people behave. And we know that people behave people,

they, their first instinct will be the type in that dot com address. So from a psychological perspective, and from a behavioral perspective, absolutely, you do want to acquire that calm domain name. Now, the question is, do you map to say your site com goes to dot net? Or do you do reverse

from an SEO perspective, there’s very little difference Google set has said in the past at most recently, as of 2016, during one of their webmaster chats, that redirects which is the rewriting of one URL to the other, as long as it is technically correct. redirects do not impact your SEO, your it does not impact your page rank, as it were, from one page to the other. What does matter is the technical correctness of the site. So if you have a URLs that do not get rewritten properly, then that can have an impact on your site. Because the search engines will see it as an error that will see it as a mistake. And you will get penalized for pages just not showing up, right. So if you had rank for a page on the dot net, and you forward it, and the phone got rewritten and correctly, that that would have some impact. So

my inclination to this question would be leave the existing website as it is the dot net and forward the dot com to the dot net, because right now there aren’t any inbound links are probably not any of value to the dot com if it’s been a parked domain,

whereas your dot net website really has has the Jews you getting a lot of traffic. And so you’ve probably got a decent number of inbound links to you, you definitely want to to avoid breaking things, you can avoid it,

use the dot com on stationary. One other thing you could actually do that would be interesting would be

as part of the redirect, when you redirect from

the dot com to the dot net

is rewrite it on the server in such a way that it appends separate tracking variables. If you are familiar with Google’s UT m codes in Google Analytics, you could actually append that as part of the rewrite and that you could see

how many people are coming into the dot com URL versus the dot net URL and see that separately. You can also using the same technique using the same redirect file,

use the dot com as a promotional URL for specific channels. So one of the things that I do on my website, for example, is I use I have Christopher S Pen calm is the main website. And then I have CS pen calm is the URL shortener and I have a set of rewrite files that allowed me to use that short URL and rewrite it with spec called specials, for lack of a better word.

So that can track what’s happening with specific promotional URLs back to my main website, and it as those UT me usually use em tracking codes to to the URL as it forward so that you can use that now just as a placeholder or as easy memorable URL but as actual promotional promotional URL. If you’ve ever for example, set up a custom link shortener with a company like Bentley, you could use that domain as the custom URL shortener. So there’s a there’s an opportunity there to do some interesting stuff.

But overall, try as a general rule, try to avoid breaking what’s working unless there’s a compelling strategic reason. And in this case, I think the the reason isn’t strong enough to break the dot net. But you still want to preserve that psychological behavioral aspect of the dot com and just doing the forwarding. So good question. Seo questions are always fun because they are

the answer may change depending on on what the various search engines have said. So

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August 30, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: What’s Most Exciting About the Future of Health?
Funts asks, “What’s got you most excited about the future of health and AI?”

There are three times to look at.
- Present-day: acceleration, accuracy, and automation reduce administrative tasks so payers, providers, and patients can spend more time on what matters most
- Near-term future: deep learning and technologies like computational chemistry, unsupervised image classification, and other machine learning help develop drugs faster and solve medical puzzles
- Far-term future: quantum computing allows us true simulation at a molecular level of the human body, allowing for massive testing and development of cures for nearly everything
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In today’s episode, Hans asks,

What am I most excited about when it comes to artificial intelligence and healthcare? I’m sitting at the health further conference today about to do a talk on AI and and where healthcare is going with it. There’s a few different areas of give one answer and Instagram yesterday. But

health care needs the three benefits of AI, which are acceleration, faster results, accuracy, better results and automation getting stuff out of the way. And when it comes to getting faster results. Certainly, obviously, the computational power of AI gets things like diagnoses done faster. The famous story of IBM Watson doing a a cancer diagnosis and a genome sequence analysis and 11 minutes is a really good example of that the accuracy

Of course, no surprise there as technology continues to improve the accuracy of the results we get out will be better. And then the alleviation. I think this is probably one of the years where there’s there’s a tremendous amount of paperwork, both regulatory and just in general, for the running of healthcare. The business of healthcare that can definitely be automated. Everything from updating EHR as an EMR is to

to filing and detecting insurance fraud even

and

if we alleviate a lot of the automation on the payer, we eliminated the automate the the paperwork on the provider, we eliminate the release of the patient paperwork and processes I think that will free up more time for for the patient to get the kind of services that they want.

Remember that artificial intelligence is not going to replace humans, certainly not in healthcare.

Can’t think of very many people who would eagerly submit to a machine doing all the poking and prodding rather than a human doctor without at least a human presence there to reassure them that yes, this is perfectly okay. And yes, that’s where that machine supposed to be poking.

And so those attributes that people are, are really good at empathy, judgment, broad life experience in that human human relationship building, that’s where that’s where I would like to see healthcare invest more time by taking away the administration, the processes the paperwork, or at least significantly reducing. So that’s the very near term future of where AI will have an impact and healthcare a bit further down the road. Although obviously there’s a lot of development happening right now.

Computational Chemistry is an area that is fascinating because what we’re doing as a society

computational chemistry system attempting to simulate the actions of individual molecules and atoms so that we can do things like for example, drug testing to find candidates for drugs against complex conditions simulating the millions or billions or trillions of atoms and molecules inside same human body is a massive feet

and being able to apply things like machine learning and deep learning to these problems will let us narrow down drug candidates faster will let us do much more extensive and rigorous testing

there even ethical reasons you’d want to do this if you could avoid animal and human testing except as a as a final proof that the chemistry works you could significantly reduce the amount of testing that you need to do and that would save time, save money and reduce the the ethical concerns.

drug testing

some examples of this, that where we were seeing it is in spot play testing. So if you’ve ever seen a spot plate and chemistry class, it’s like a little square additions, guys a little round indentations there, and you put in all of your test materials and your, your controls. And then you put in your variations of drugs. And then you look at it go, what changed.

And spot play testing is a time proven practice in chemistry, but it is

it is not really a scale because a human being could not look at, for example, a spot plate the size of a football field, right? That’s just even if it was millions and millions of different combinations of of a test. There’s no way for us to realistically parse all that but a machine can a machine can use a camera or a whole bunch of cameras and gather a million images or 2 million images, you know, different frequencies of light and stuff like that and then apply on supervised learning to

say, Okay, what have all these tests, variations? Which ones are different? How do they clustered together? And what do those tell us? What kind of information does that tell us about that particular combination of tests. There’s a tremendous opportunity there for for basic unsupervised learning to drastically improve spot play testing. But the real the real goods will be in computational chemistry, particularly once the technology matures. Once we are

into sort of the the triple digit cubits and we can simulate molecules and atoms at a much larger scale with quantum computing, then you’re going to really see the our ability to do computational chemistry take off because right now the fastest biggest computers in the world would still struggle to accurately simulate all the crazy conditions inside the human body. And just taking one aspirin can drastically change your blood chemistry

and our machines.

you struggle to deal with a situation like that to accurately model what’s happening, your blood chemistry changes, minute to minute hour to hour every day,

but a quantum machine, that can do trillions or quadrillions or quintillion of simultaneous calculations that could do it that could accurately simulate all the variances inside of a human body. And then we would be able to do things like drug testing, surgical testing, all sorts of modalities to see what actually gets the result we want and do it at massive scale and very, very quickly.

So there’s sort of three frontiers with AI in healthcare. There is the commercially available technology that is

in market right now, that should be being used at all levels of health care so that we can get those those core benefits acceleration, accuracy and automation. There’s the near term with deep learning in computational chemistry and other

Their forms of diagnosis as well we’re deep learning can be used to find an extrapolate patterns and then there’s that far frontier where quantum plus machine learning plus true computational chemistry simulations

could potentially within the next 20, 3040 years be solving are our most difficult challenges we will get to a point as it is and we’re gonna blow ourselves up

where

will solve most of the major medical problems

and so then we need to have obviously a very long conversation about

do we restrict things like birth rate when people will live for a couple hundred years but that’s that’s not for quite some time but in in the near term cures to two more cancers will certainly be up for grabs

here. So all sorts of conditions where we are looking to to alleviate mitigate or eliminate

Killer conditions today

are on the table on the really the only thing that will be killing us as a as a species will be like like accidents, our own carelessness, drug overdoses and such because the the preventable diseases will have been prevented. So that’s what’s got me excited about AI and healthcare there’s tremendous opportunity the science is moving very very quickly companies are embracing the technology so as a whole I feel that we are in a really good place and moving quickly to an even better place. And I think that benefits us all

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August 29, 2018
Do Something With Your Marketing: Custom URL Redirects
Public speakers and brands both need ways to make calls to action more memorable, especially from conferences and events. Few things are as memorable as an easy-to-remember domain name. In this short video, see the simple process for making your most recent important content memorable – with no coding involved.

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In today’s episode, I want to encourage you to make your most important pages memorable with custom domains. So I do a lot of public speaking. And one of the things that people of course, ask all the time is, where can I get a copy of the slides? So a number years ago, I bought a domain called Where can I get the slides calm. And after or just an advance of every talk, I redirect this URL so that it goes to the download for the most recent talk for for the most recent upcoming talk. So let’s look at how you might do this. Because this is something that requires very little technology and is easy to do and has really, really good memory benefits for people to be able to going get what they want a particularly when you’re on stage, nothing is worse. Like for example, I’m about to get on the road to do this aim. If you’re healthier talk look at the length of this URL. There’s no way putting this on.

A slide anyone’s going to remember it. So what do we do with this? we redirect it. I’m going to go to GoDaddy. And you can see here I’m going to take this my domain, where can I get the slides calm, which I bought a while ago. And I’m going to redirect this. I’m going to forward it to a new place,

just clean up the URL here.

And now hit save. And in about an hour, where can I get the slides calm will go to this page instead. So now I can put that URL in my talk and have very little difficulty getting people to remember it when they take a picture of the shot at the end of the slide at the end of the presentation that shows where you can get the slides again, easy for them to remember. easy for them to say they can even talk to their smartphone say, hey, Assistant, go to where can I get the slides dot com. It’s very, very memorable. So if you’ve got important landing pages that you absolutely need people to remember and find their way to that is phonetically on

understandable consider buying a custom domain from wherever any domain name registrar and you don’t need to set up a website for it. All you need to do is set up a forward in your domain manager and you will be able to send people on to wherever you like. Make it easy for them, make it convenient for them. And that way you can get the traffic conversions the results from an event that you’re looking for. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel into the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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August 28, 2018
Friday Feeling: Facebook Trustworthiness Scores
According to this report by the Washington Post, Facebook scores users on false reporting of fake news on a scale of 0 to 1.

First clues:
- 0 to 1 is a major hint that this is simple probability calculations
- Based principally on how often you report something as fake when it’s true
- For those who don’t remember, Facebook is essentially trying to reduce Type I statistical errors in their machine learning training data
- Type I is saying something’s true when it’s false – the boy who cried wolf
The reality is that your credit score has far greater impact on your life than a Facebook score of any kind. If you want to fight a scoring system, fight that one.

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In today’s episode, let’s talk about trustworthiness score. So Facebook made the news again this week for The Washington Post reporting that it was building or had built trustworthiness scores of its users in the article, which is linked in the show notes. Facebook scores users on false reporting of fake news on a scale of zero to one. What do we know about this? What’s interesting about this? Well, the first clue is that the scale of zero to one is a major hint that this is all around probability calculation, it is likely to be tied to either just flat out error rate, or P values, which is a statistical expression of the likelihood of error. The way was explaining the article, Facebook said that they are using these scores in order to determine how trustworthy a user is within the context of reporting fake news. And apparently, what happens. And this is no surprise

for things that are politics, people were reporting things as fake that were actually true articles.

And when you report something is fake, a certain percentage of articles goes to humans to essentially check out make sure these this actually a fake article, a roomful of people somewhere, checking Snopes,

which in turn means that the more false reports there are a fake news, the more they have to increase staffing, things like that, and the more expensive it gets. So Facebook has instead created an algorithm that judges how trustworthy your reports are of fake news. Now, for those who don’t remember, this is a statistical thing. Facebook is essentially trying to reduce type one errors, right? So

if you never took us to six course, there are two major types of errors in hypothesis testing. type one error is saying something is true. What is false type two error saying something is false when it’s true. So the one of the best ways to explain this is the boy who cried wolf, the story the kid who cries Wolf and the villagers run and check out and of course, there’s, that’s the type one error The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a type one error. Now, what happens in the story later on is the type one error becomes a type two error, the boy cries, Wolf, nobody believes him, they believe it’s false, but there actually is a wolf and everybody dies. And so these are the two types of errors you can make and statistical testing. So Facebook isn’t concerned, less is less concerned about people saying something is true, but really false, because that is implicit in our behavior. If we if nobody flags a story as false, then by default, it must be true. So what they’re trying to reduce is number of people who say this story is fake news. But reality it’s a it is accurate,

but it may go against your political inclinations. You may have a bias you read a story about a democrat and your republican you know, like that’s, that’s just fake. That’s fake news, or vice versa

Democrat, you’re reading a story about a Republican, you know, as clearly faking anything this person says is fake. well

as people who care about data and the integrity of data,

you and I can’t make that mistake, we can’t do that we have to, we do have to apply judgment and

except even if we don’t like Opposing Viewpoints,

particularly when it gets to politics. So what’s got people concerned about this is their their, their thinking Black Mirror style scenarios where there’s a score that rates you and every aspect of your life

there already is, we have these scores, we’ve had these scores for decades. If you’ve ever bought anything on credit, guess what, you have a credit score, a credit score is your trustworthiness score in the realm of Finance. So we’re as a society, okay, with one of three companies telling us essentially, whether someone should do business with us, there are the same style of scores for businesses there, you can absolutely bet there are a million and a half different scores. When it comes to things like apps like Tinder,

whether or not you know about them is the question, but those scores exist. For anybody who works in marketing, we are scoring people all the time, when you go into your CRM, or you’re going to your marketing automation software, you have the opportunity to decide what things should earn someone more points in the marketing automation software to qualify them further as a lead. So these scores exist everywhere. Now, what’s different about this is that

we don’t have a good understanding of what goes in the score. Frankly, we don’t have a good understanding what goes into most of these scores.

And that’s really the heart of it. And it’s a kind of a uncomfortable paradox. Because

for people who are malicious, if you know the algorithm, you can game the algorithm, you can figure out how to beat the algorithm. So a company who wants the algorithm to work correctly

has to

disguise or hide the internal workings vice versa. We are also pushing as a society for more transparency, especially tech companies whose devices literally are ruling our lives

because we let them

and so

Facebook Facebook is just could have done a better job of

I feel as it could have done a better job of explaining, look, we are specifically targeting people who report things as fake when it’s true, stop doing that, and you will have a perfect trustworthy score. And if you want to view your trustworthy score, cool, you know, here’s the number of articles that you rated as fake, which are, in fact true. And maybe that would even be benefit saying, yep, this one here that you regarded as fake actually is true,

that might do some good in helping break people’s biases. It won’t do much good. But it could do a little bit of good. If someone’s curious about the trustworthiness score to say yes, that you reported this is fake, it’s true, you have a bias of your own. If you fix that bias, your trustworthiness score will go up so there’s a potential for positive impact from this but in general,

what’s going on here is no more malicious or

or scary then the dozens of other scores that are ruling our lives all day every day here in chump your insurance company has a score about your credit card company has a score about you, your mortgage has a score about you, you’re dating apps have scores about you, if you do business with another business is a score about you and the marketing automation software. And if you are setting up marketing automation software, and you’re assigning points to leads, you might want to think about that algorithm. Think about what is how do you how do you decide what

what constitutes a good leader badly because you were scoring people, you are applying a scoring algorithm to people so give some thought to is this something that makes a lot of senses are the defaults to come out of the system? good ones, I would guarantee

at least half of the people who use marketing automation software except the defaults for scoring. Maybe you shouldn’t, you should go to those and figure out actually this does not conform to how we think about generating business. So just some thoughts and feelings for you on this Friday. Don’t worry too much about the scores because in the grand scheme of things, your credit score controls far more of your life than your Facebook trustworthiness score. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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August 24, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: How to Recycle Old Blog Content
Cara asks, “I have less time than ever but a massive backlog of old blog posts. How can I re-use them for SEO?”

This is known as content recycling, a technique pioneered by Backlinko and refined by Andy Crestodina. Over the years, I’ve adapted it to how I create content, so among these three blog posts, you should have plenty of ways to tune up content.

First, you need to prioritize which content. Using Google Sheets and the Google Analytics plugin, plus an SEO tool like SEMrush, you’ll identify the highest traffic and the highest ranking old content. My personal preference is to create a 2×2 matrix of traffic vs. rank and prioritize by quadrant, but do it based on which metric matters more to you.

Next, we dig into the recipe:
- Content
- Data and research
- Graphics
- Video
- Audio
- Metadata and markup
- Commentary
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In today’s episode, Kara asks, I have less time than ever but a massive backlog of old content of old blog posts. How can I reuse these for SEO? This is a technique that is called content recycling or content refresh technique first pioneered by backlink Oh, and then refined by Andy, Christina. And over the years, I’ve adapted it to how I create content stuff. So among these three blog posts, it’ll be links in the show notes. You should have plenty of ways to tune up content. So let’s actually walk through the process. First, we need to prioritize what content to to work on using an SEO tool of your choice. You know, there’s there’s sem rush, which is one I recommend. There’s a link in the show notes. There’s also RF, spy, foo Mas, etc. You want to identify the highest traffic blog post some highest ranking blog posts and for traffic I recommend using the Google

sheets so you can use this Google Sheets plugs into your Google Analytics. And then for my case because I kept the year and the month in the URLs, my blog not everyone does that but I kept them in there so I can sort them by and and screen them by date. But um, you want to identify the highest traffic and the highest ranking older content my personal preference is to use

clustering so I like to make charts it’s my thing

and so what I’ve done is I’ve created a two by two matrix of rank in descending order because rank one is the best and then traffic and you can see here there’s specific pages that really kind of stand out as having traffic but not necessarily having rank or vice versa and so like these are the pages down here and that great

position 27 traffic one these pages here that have you’re starting to get traffic it could use a refresh this kind of this cluster here that I think I would pay attention to some stuff that I’d want to improve in order to uh, to get more

more traffic and better rank. So that’s the general identification process. Again, use Google Sheets with a Google Analytics add on, and then use the SEO tool of your choice. Now let’s dig into the actual content recipe itself. So what are the things you do to a post to improve it is rewriting and refreshing the content itself. Of course, you adding new language, adding new commentary, adding new content,

adding new ideas, rewriting stuff, if you’ve got older content that hopefully your skills as a writer have improved over the years and you can go back and fix some of your mistakes. Adding new data and new research is a definite simple easy way to boost the value of what you’ve you’ve published adding new graphics, tuning up old graphics, for example, is a is an important way adding video and adding audio to a post it are easy ways to add more stuff to the post. One important thing is as you refresh you want to add value you want to add stuff to the post that makes it a better

posts. So not just tinkering with a little bit, but actually doing working to increase the value of the post to the reader. Because in the end, we still want them to convert and just, you know, playing SEO tricks for SEO tricks sake is is not valuable, there’s no there’s nothing good to be done that had they’re changing the metadata in the markup is important. So after you do your refresh, you absolutely need to change the date of the post and edit any additional markup that needs to be added in it from header tags that we may be configured to structured data if you’ve got structured data highlighting and so on and so forth. And finally, integrating commentary. So if the old post got some comments or got some shares on social media or some, you know, comments on on Facebook or whatever it may I space of the post is old enough,

bringing that in and weaving into the content of the post is an important way to help refresh it. So let’s do this very quickly and easily here on one post. This is a post on the SWOT analysis and it’s okay it’s it’s pretty good.

But it could definitely use a bit of refreshing here. So I’m going to do two things here. I’m going to do both the graphics because that graphic is pretty awful. So let’s get rid of that and and bring a new graphic in

and make sure the graphic has the proper keywords and stuff associated with it and it looks in accordance with the rest of my blog.

And then notice here this, there’s some sections here. I’ve got some bolding here so that that’s indicate indicative that those are sections that need to be caught separately. So let’s do a definition of a SWOT analysis.

Let’s just turn this into a subheading, because that’s important to to make this easier to read, as opposed to just being a wall of text.

And let’s call this advanced SWOT analysis.

Okay,

there we go.

Now let’s take a look here. Make sure that we’re got proper tagging setup here. This could go to medium. I wouldn’t mind this going to medium. Actually, I don’t think I want this one to go to medium. So let’s turn medium off and let’s change the date today. Let’s make it yesterday’s posts. So this will be August 22, 2013.

And now this post is refreshed and I think I want to change

this meta tag to marketing strategy SWOT analysis. And I’m doing this because SWOT analysis is a better term search term so is marketing strategy than the original here we want change the post title as well. So I’ll change this to

now last thing we’re going to need to do. We’re going to update this post so this post is now up to date. It is refreshed it is back on the treadmill as it were and

Imagine post cycling down a treadmill. Last thing we need to do is add a redirect. So we’re going to need to log into a web server and change the old link to go to the new link. So in this redirect file on my web server, I’m gonna type in a redirect the old one, and this is the new link. There’s the post we just made. I’m going to go ahead and get the the old link from here

and just make sure this is here. Save that. And now anytime that somebody goes to that old blog post, they should now get bounced to the new ones. Let’s go ahead and test that.

And there we go. 2018 marketing strategy SWOT analysis, and now this post is refresh. It looks better. I mean, it looks like a nicer post looks more appropriate and it’s been slightly optimized, but now is a fresher piece of content. So this is the process for putting something on the treadmill for being able to take it and tune it up again.

There are a variety of different ways we just did. A very fast example of taking a post is adding a bit more graphical stuff too and changing some the metadata in the markup to refresh it. But there are tons of different ways if you’ve got old blog posts that are really good and there’s not much to be done record a video of you essentially summarizing the blog post or adding your point of view on it read the blog post allowed to do a podcast and and make that the audio and how you’ve got some additional content and a new way of reaching people because people who don’t maybe don’t want to read your blog, but would subscribe to your podcast. That’s a great way to do it. Same with video. If you load the video to YouTube and hosted there now you’re accessing a different audience. So there’s so many ways to put your content on a treadmill to get it recycling to get it tuned up. I can’t emphasize strongly enough this is something that everybody should be doing. If you’ve got stuff that’s older than a year put it on the treadmill and keep refreshing your greatest hits, making them better and better over time so that they continue to add more value to your readers and subscribers as a

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August 23, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Which Marketing Conferences Should You Attend?
Andrew asks, “which marketing conferences should I go to? What can’t I miss?”

Unsurprisingly, the answer to this question depends on your goals. If you want to deep dive into something, I don’t recommend conferences. Take a course instead.

If you want to get a sense for the landscape of an industry, or network and make professional connections, then go to conferences.

Here’s my list, based on needs. Obviously, if you’re working with a specific vendor, make the effort to go to that vendor’s conference!
- Social media? You can’t miss Social Media Marketing World. It’s mandatory. Also check out Jason Keath’s Social Fresh.
- Content marketing? No place other than Content Marketing World.
- Marketing technology? Scott Brinker’s MarTech conference is the place to be.
- Data science? The Open Data Science Conference, ODSC.
- B2B marketer? MarketingProfs B2B Forum is a must-attend.
Major vendor events:
- Hubspot INBOUND
- Oracle Modern Marketing
- Salesforce Dreamforce
- Marketo Marketing Nation
- Google Cloud Next
- IBM THINK
- Tableau Conference
One last tip: if you want to make the most of a conference, be sure to join that conference’s pre-event networking/Slack groups etc. so that you’ve got friends in advance. You’ll get much more out of the conference.

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In today’s episode, Andrew asks, which marketing conferences? Should I be going to? What are the ones do not miss? unsurprisingly? The answer to this question depends very heavily on what your goals are. If your goals are to learn a subject in depth, don’t go to conferences, conferences are a great way to survey the landscape to dip your toes into a whole bunch of different things to to get a digest sense of something, if you want to learn a topic in depth, take a course instead, there’s so many great online courses, take the course. And the thing that you care about. Most were that you have a a strategic imperative to learn and you’ll get more benefit out of them. So

if you don’t learn at conferences, what what’s the point?

Well, like I said, They’re great for landscapes of the industry, they’re great for seeing what’s available, what’s possible, there’s a lot of case studies, a lot of things where you can pick up little pieces of information, things, you know, they’re like an in person Google trip, right, where you learn about a whole bunch of stuff that you go and go and search later on and learn about later on. So that’s really what conferences are good at. The other thing conferences are great at is human beings of people, which is not always my favorite thing. But

conferences are about networking and making professional connections. So if you need to, to meet people in your industry, if you need to interact if you need to learn from other people in your industry conferences are a great place to do that. Because frankly, they’re really good at getting a whole bunch of people into one place at the same time. Now, there are a whole bunch of you know, tips and tricks and things you should be doing at conferences to get the most out of those meetings. I will cover one a little bit later. But that’s why you go to conferences, you want the landscape you want to you want the buffet a little bit a little bit of everything and you want the of the fellow people in your tribe if you will.

So which conferences in the marketing space should you be going to now if you’re working with a specific vendor there are a ton of vendor conferences and every vendor conferences trying to make itself into like you know the industry conference but of course a substantial portion of the content is still going to be very heavily weighted towards that vendors product and service so if you are for example a HubSpot user you should be going to inbound that’s common sense if you are a mark Hedo user you should be going to marketing nation and so on and so forth so make sure that you are attending a vendor conference for the systems that you use because well frankly there’s no reason not to you’ll get the most out of it because you’re going to get the most and learn the most about the tools you’re already using for social media the conference to go to without a doubt Social Media Marketing World I’ve got a link in the show notes if you want to register to attend I think there’s some kind of discount for early birds right now but it is if you are in the Social Media Marketing World Social Media Marketing World This is the conference to attend hands down it is mandatory also check out Jason Keith social fresh which is a an annual conference as well it’s an excellent event if you are into content marketing no surprise content marketing world is where you should be it is a also a gigantic event held in Cleveland every year and for people who are charged with the responsibility of making stuff

content of all forms the place to go

if you care about marketing technology the systems the tools so the vendors and what’s happening in the marketing automation marketing technology AI to some degree but a lot of the the practical applied tools in marketing

the martek conference, Scott Brinker

smart tech conferences, the place to be there’s two of them every year there’s a martek a Westerner martek East both are very good to go to,

I personally would lean towards the one nearest you were there. They’re both good events. Now if you care about data science, AI, machine learning, but especially data science, statistics and stuff, the Open Data Science Conference, again, there’s two of those data science West Open Data Science west and east, go to the one that’s closest to you. But you will pick up a ton about what’s happening in the field of data science, not all of its marketing. A lot of it is you know, just general application but if you want to, again see the landscape of what’s possible in data science, definitely the event to go to and then of course, the major vendor events you have HubSpot, inbound Oracle Marketing, Modern Marketing, I think it’s just called modern marketing, sales forces. Dream force, gigantic conference, if you want to see every if you want to see a conference that does is crazy, go to dream forces like 150,000 people. If you don’t like large crowds don’t

enforce

go to market marketing nation. Google Cloud Next is an important event if you’re in the Google Cloud ecosystem. Google marketing platform also has its own events and things. So if you are in the Google Analytics and Google AdWords world, the place to go if you are a vendor reseller distributor or a partner of Google, you absolutely should be going to the Google partner events. So there’s Google Analytics partner conference, and stuff like that. Do not miss those. Because as you will learn in your NDA, they will reveal the roadmap for 12 to 18 months for the products that you are working with on a day to day basis. If you’re not a Google partner, consider becoming one because you get a lot of fringe benefits. And it doesn’t cost anything other than proving that you actually know what you’re doing with Google products. IBM think by far one of the best conferences to go to if you’ve not been and you want to learn about the state of technology from IBM perspective a terrific event to go to and on the visualization side Tablo conference, if you love making charts, it is the place to go, because Tableau is is the gold standard currently in data visualization. So those all the major events, if you’ve got unlimited budget, and unlimited travel time, there you go. I would suggest if you don’t have unlimited budget, you do two events, you do a vendor conference for the tool that you use most with a tool that you need to learn how to use best and then do a one of the the general conferences like social media marketing, world content marketing world, stuff like that.

That’s how to choose what to go to every year. And if you have to pick only one again, I would, I would lean towards a vendor conference only, so that you can get better at the tools that you’re already paying for. That would make the most sense,

the exception being a less disease specific strategic focus. Like if you if your boss says we must get better at social media then yet go to Social Media Marketing World.

One last tip, a lot of people feel like they get lost at these bigger conferences, especially, you know,

I think social media marketing world’s up to 11,000 people. Now, hub spots up to like, 30 dream forces, somewhere between 150 and one at if you want to make the most of the conference, if you want to not feel like a stranger alone in the crowd, the best thing you can do is join that conferences, pre event networking or slack group. And if there isn’t one, start one and, you know, get buy in for the event or say, Hey, I’m gonna run this unless you strenuously object calm, you know, we’re going to do this because you want to build your tribe in advance, you don’t need to meet 1000 or 10,000 or 100,000 people at an event, you want to probably meet 10 or 15 or 20 people who are peers, people who that you can network with people who can become friends with and that and, and have those those interactions those relationships after the event ends. And so something like slack group or Facebook group, or whatever it is, you want to join that participate, get to know people have your tribe ready and and and, and assembled before you even set foot on the air airplane or the bus or whatever, so that you have friends at the event. And then you can carry those friendships on after the event that is so important in order to make the most of conferences that you go to maybe we’ll do another follow on about, you know, other things you should be doing to take advantage of conferences, but these are the events in the marketing world right now to attend As of mid 2018, and I hope to see you at some I speak at a lot of these events. I hope to see you at them. If you are going to be at

the top Say hi, would love to chat and you know, sip of coffee or just stare awkwardly which I also do so

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August 22, 2018

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